Tories Face Annihilation
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
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These were by-elections the Tories had whopping big majorities for - and they lost them. There's no coming back - Tory rule is coming to an end. So what next?
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| 0:00.0 | It is all over for the Conservatives. They are cooked, toast, finito, routed, |
| 0:04.8 | smashed, deceased, perished, pickled, wrecked, kapot. You know that scene in Terminator 2 where |
| 0:10.2 | the nuclear bomb goes off and it's all pl, pl, pl, pl, and Sarah Collins clinging onto the fence |
| 0:15.5 | as she's incinerated. Yeah well that's so Conservatives' Electoral Prospects. |
| 0:21.5 | Now, there were two bi elections this Thursday. The first, I'll discuss, was Midbedfordshire. |
| 0:26.8 | That was held by Nandine Dorries, who amongst other things was a former culture secretary, |
| 0:30.8 | a former TV panace of mine who got on occasion. And I would argue an inadvertent camp icon. |
| 0:36.2 | Anyway, she dragged out of his ironing from her seat because she was so angry that she |
| 0:41.4 | sannacked Blockter from getting a period. And I am so here for that level of pettiness, |
| 0:46.1 | I can't help but respect it. Anyway, she won that seat in 2019 with a more than 24,500 majority. |
| 0:52.1 | Yes, that a Labour took that seat with a 1,192 majority, which has a swing of 20.5 to Labour. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, the other was caused by the resignation of Chris Pitchett, who was the former |
| 1:05.6 | conservative whip who resigned over sexual misconduct. That's the seat of Tamworth in Staffordshire, |
| 1:11.9 | Staffordshire, well, hello. The choice held that seat with a 19.5,000 majority of so |
| 1:18.0 | back in 2019, Labour surveyed Edwards overturned that and now has a majority of 1,360. |
| 1:23.8 | So that's a swing of 23.9 points to Labour. Let's just hear the moment she was elected. |
| 1:38.7 | Now, the toy candidate, Andrew Cooper, was a new happy. And if there's one word, |
| 1:43.8 | though, I would really associate with the Conservatives right now. It's dignity. So in that spirit, |
| 1:48.7 | when seven Edwards began her victory speech, he rushed off stage to the news fire exit. |
| 2:05.9 | Now, let's just be clear here, there is no way the Conservatives can turn this around. |
| 2:09.8 | I talked about this on Good Morning Britain on ITV to explain why, but before that clip, |
| 2:13.9 | let's listen to the preeminent swathologist. He never pronounced that word. So John Curtis, |
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